Chapter 31: A Good Show
After taking the call, Zhu Zhixi went backstage and met Liang Yi’en. He was wearing a black suit he would almost never wear in daily life, most likely a costume. He did not look like the second male lead at all—if anything, he looked like the male lead.
“What’s so urgent? Isn’t the show about to start…”
Before Zhu Zhixi could finish asking, he saw a child come out from behind Liang Yi’en, holding his hand. In an instant, all the strange and bizarre guesses from before flashed through his mind. He pointed at the two of them. “Wait, where did this kid come from? I knew there was a child at your place before. Is it him? Liang Yi’en, you’ve really grown capable. You’re even raising a child behind my back now!”
Liang Yi’en was overwhelmed. “Listen to me first. I did hide something from you, and I originally planned to tell you after this cultural festival ended. That’s why I gave you tickets to come watch it, and after you watched it, I was going to confess. But honestly, this whole thing is really bizarre. Even if I tell you, you might not believe it…”
“I relate to that way too much.” Zhu Zhixi held his hand and shook it. “That’s me every day.”
After hearing this, Liang Yi’en seemed to make some sort of decision. “Senior Zhixi, do you believe in science?”
Zhu Zhixi nodded. “Of course.”
Liang Yi’en: “Then let me do a little test. Do you believe there are ghosts in this world?”
Zhu Zhixi thought for a moment. “Maybe there are. I hope there are.” After saying this, he looked back, then up, and blinked.
That way, maybe Mom follows me and keeps me company every day.
Liang Yi’en glanced at the theater poster beside them and asked again, “Then do you believe there are angels in this world?”
Without thinking, Zhu Zhixi nodded again. “I do.”
Very quickly, he added with a grin, “I am one.”
Liang Yi’en fell silent.
“Forget it. I can’t explain it clearly in such a short time.” He pushed the child in front of him and instructed Zhu Zhixi, “Senior, help me keep an eye on this child. He can’t be left alone.”
“Then why did you bring him here? Child labor?”
“Wasn’t I originally in charge of props? I wasn’t supposed to go onstage, so bringing him along wasn’t a big deal. Then the director insisted on making me play the second male lead. I only had one scene, and the set for that scene needed a fire hydrant prop, so I simply had him dress up as a fire hydrant and stand with his back to the stage the whole time. But now the director has added more scenes for me, and I can’t just bring a fire hydrant onstage with me.”
After hearing this, Zhu Zhixi laughed nonstop and pulled the child over. “All right. I just have to watch him?”
“Mm. It’s best to hold his hand the whole time. If I’m not onstage and he can’t see me, he might get anxious. Nothing good happens when he gets anxious. Just hurry and tell him I’ll be back soon. If necessary, hug him. Absolutely don’t let him leave your sight. Absolutely, absolutely don’t, or there’ll be trouble.”
Was there any need to be this nervous? Zhu Zhixi lowered his head and looked at the child. The child happened to raise his head and stare at him too.
He was quite good-looking. He did not look like a little villain.
Looking at him this way, Zhu Zhixi suddenly noticed that the child’s right hand had been tugging at the necklace on his chest. Looking closer, it was a little black-and-gold angel pendant. Zhu Zhixi was a little surprised. “Isn’t this the necklace you always wear? Has it become his comfort toy?”
Liang Yi’en looked as though he had a whole lawsuit on his forehead. His eyes were lifeless as he sighed. “It’s fine. Right now, as long as I can soothe him, I wish I could turn him into a comfort toy and stuff him in my pocket. The key is, even if I ask him to transform, he won’t…”
“What are you mumbling about?”
“Nothing.” Liang Yi’en crouched down, hugged the child, leaned close to his ear, gave him a few instructions, then patted his back. “Little Yu, be good. This is Brother Zhixi. He’ll stay with you for a while in my place.”
Little Yu? Zhu Zhixi thought of the little bird in the surveillance footage. He also crouched down and smiled at the child named Little Yu. “That’s right. Brother has tasty food.”
But Little Yu only stared blankly at Zhu Zhixi, then lowered his head and stared at his left hand without shifting his eyes at all.
“You don’t need to talk to him too much. He doesn’t talk much,” Liang Yi’en said. “Just hold his hand.”
Zhu Zhixi nodded and obediently held Little Yu’s hand. Who knew the child would pull his hand out, move to Zhu Zhixi’s right side, and take his right hand instead.
“Why switch hands?” Zhu Zhixi asked.
Little Yu did not answer.
Zhu Zhixi did not ask further. He sized up Little Yu’s outfit and, in the end, still could not help speaking.
“Doesn’t he need to change out of this costume?”
“No. It’s warm.” Sitting in the audience, Little Yu shook his head, rejecting the request to change clothes again as he stared unmoving at the unlit stage.
Fu Rangyi’s expression was not good. “But I don’t want to hold a fire hydrant’s hand the entire time.”
Zhu Zhixi smiled and tugged at the fire hydrant mascot suit covering Little Yu. “It’s cute.”
How is it cute?
“I already said I could hold him.” Zhu Zhixi looked at Fu Rangyi sitting on his left.
Fu Rangyi remained silent.
Ever since they came in, Zhu Zhixi had been holding this child of unknown origin and even had to sit with him. Unfortunately, this child was extremely stubborn and insisted on sitting on the left, causing the seat on Zhu Zhixi’s right to be taken by Yu Heng. Fu Rangyi could only squeeze between Zhu Zhixi and the child to separate them, and he volunteered to hold the little brat’s hand himself.
He glanced to his left.
His vision went black.
Little fire hydrant, him, Zhu Zhixi, Yu Heng.
How had the seating arrangement somehow become this?
Seeing that Fu Rangyi had been gloomy and unhappy ever since he sat down, Zhu Zhixi almost asked several times if they should simply switch seats and let him hold Little Yu instead. But then he thought about how Yu Heng was sitting on the right. If they switched, wouldn’t that be sending Fu Rangyi straight into the tiger’s mouth? That would be too unfair to him.
But Fu Rangyi also insisted on sitting in the middle.
After thinking it over, Zhu Zhixi stretched out his left hand and smiled at Fu Rangyi. “How about you use your right hand to hold me? One on each side. That way, we look even more like a family of three.”
Fu Rangyi thought again of how he had asked the little fire hydrant why he had randomly called him Daddy earlier, and the fire hydrant had said, because you wanted to hear it at the time.
I wanted to hear a random child call me Daddy? How come I didn’t know I had this sort of kink?
What family of three?
With a cold face, he said, “No need. I don’t want to give birth to a fire hydrant either.”
“Oh, all right.” Zhu Zhixi withdrew his hand. When he turned his head, he accidentally saw Yu Heng sitting on his right. His expression was even uglier.
Great. He was surrounded by a team of sour faces.
He rummaged through his bag and took out the warm red bean buns he had bought earlier at the food stall. He nudged Fu Rangyi. “Want one?”
“No. I don’t like sweet things,” Fu Rangyi replied.
“Oh.” He leaned past Fu Rangyi. “Little Yu, do you want one?”
Little Yu was completely covered inside the red cylindrical mascot suit, his vision blocked quite thoroughly. Every time he looked to the right, he had to turn his whole body. He laboriously turned over, took the red bean bun, and softly said “thank you.” Then he said to Fu Rangyi, “My hand is about to be flattened by you.”
Fu Rangyi: “…”
Before Little Yu could turn back, he asked again, “Brother Little Xi, since he isn’t eating, can I have another one?”
Fu Rangyi’s expression changed. “Who said I’m not eating?”
He directly took the other bun from Zhu Zhixi’s hand.
Zhu Zhixi blinked and asked with a smile, “Which little friend was it who said just now that he didn’t like sweet things?”
Fu Rangyi stopped speaking.
Zhu Zhixi looked down and saw that there were two more in the paper bag. After thinking for a moment, he took one out and held it in his mouth. Then he turned around and stuffed the other, along with the paper bag, into Yu Heng’s hands.
Yu Heng froze, his expression extremely shocked. “You! Why are you giving this to me?”
“To eat.” Zhu Zhixi was biting the bun, so his words were muffled and unclear. “It’s really good. Trust me. Hurry and try it!”
“I’m not saying this isn’t good… No,” Yu Heng was thrown into disorder, speaking incoherently. “Who wants your food? I don’t want it.”
Zhu Zhixi blinked twice, took the bun out of his mouth, and said seriously, “Since you’re already here, and you’re here to support my junior’s performance, then that makes you a friend.”
Yu Heng was completely dumbfounded. He stared at Zhu Zhixi for a long time, choking without managing to squeeze out a single word. Instead, his face flushed red.
At the far left, the little fire hydrant slowly turned over at this moment and stretched out half his head, staring at the hand Fu Rangyi was holding and the ring on his finger.
“You’re married,” he suddenly said.
Fu Rangyi did not turn his face and only gave a faint “mm.”
The little fire hydrant asked again, “Then when are you having children?”
Fu Rangyi: “…”
Zhu Zhixi, sitting nearby, also heard this and nearly choked on the bun. He hurriedly unscrewed a water bottle and gulped down a big mouthful.
Having received no answer, the fire hydrant pressed on. “Have you kissed on the mouth?”
Zhu Zhixi nearly choked on the water too. “No, why are you, a little kid, asking these things?”
The little red cylinder slowly rotated ninety degrees to the right, stared at Zhu Zhixi, and said, “Then that means you have kissed.”
Fu Rangyi: “Your logic is quite clear.”
The fire hydrant boy turned back again. “If you’ve kissed on the mouth, then you can have children.”
Zhu Zhixi had a head full of question marks. “I can’t give birth.”
“Then maybe you’re not trying hard enough,” Little Yu concluded.
Fu Rangyi’s tone was calm as he said very seriously, “This kind of thing can’t be achieved through one person’s effort alone.”
“Is that the main point?” Zhu Zhixi was speechless. The main point is that I’m a Beta, okay?
But after hearing this, the little fire hydrant nodded instead and said to Fu Rangyi, “Then you should try hard too. That way, it won’t be one person trying alone.”
You two can actually chat with each other pretty well.
Yu Heng, sitting nearby, seemed unable to endure it any longer. The paper bag holding the bun crackled in his grip. He finally erupted. “Why does this child talk so much? The show is about to start.”
This time, the red cylinder rotated even more, leaning forward a little as he stared at Yu Heng. Still using that little robot-like tone, he asked, “Who are you?”
Yu Heng did not expect him to confront him directly and froze. “Me?”
“Yes.” Little Yu asked lightly, “Are you their wife?”
Now all three adults were speechless.
“What nonsense are you saying!” Yu Heng was so angry he was about to smoke. “Can anyone control him?”
“Oh, you’re not.” The little cylinder sat properly again. “Since you’re not, then don’t participate in our family’s internal discussion about having children.”
Zhu Zhixi’s vision went black. When he turned his head, he saw Fu Rangyi pursing his lips to hold back laughter.
How rare. He had actually made Fu Rangyi laugh.
“You’re amazing.” Zhu Zhixi leaned past his fake husband, who was watching the show, and said to the little fire hydrant.
Little Yu nodded. “Mm. I can also talk to small animals.”
Alarm bells went off in Zhu Zhixi’s mind. Rather than making guesses, why not directly get information out of this child’s mouth? Once he decided, he acted. He bent over, leaned past Fu Rangyi toward the little fire hydrant, tugged at his fire hydrant chain, and asked in an extremely small voice, “Hey, then you… couldn’t possibly also turn into small animals, right?”
Fu Rangyi heard it and was somewhat angry. But not because of Zhu Zhixi’s nonsense.
“Why are you speaking to him so quietly?” He somehow could not suppress his irritation.
Zhu Zhixi was already tired from bending over, so he simply supported himself with both hands and lay across Fu Rangyi’s knees, raising his head to look at him. “Why are you suddenly so fierce?”
He muttered again, “I can’t exactly say this out loud…”
“How do you know?” Little Yu ignored Fu Rangyi’s interference, stared at Zhu Zhixi, then looked at his left hand.
He seemed to want to imitate Zhu Zhixi and lean over too, but he was wearing the costume and could not bend at the waist. Just as he was about to try, Fu Rangyi pushed him away.
When Zhu Zhixi heard this, he became even more excited. “Really? Don’t lie to me!”
Fu Rangyi: “Zhu Zhixi, what exactly is stuffed inside that head of yours?”
He was even starting to wonder whether he should be taking him for a physical examination at all, or whether he should take him to get an exorcism instead.
“Hurry up and tell me. Who exactly are you?” Zhu Zhixi tugged at the fire-hydrant chain again.
“I don’t know.” The little fire hydrant seemed a little unhappy. “I don’t remember. I’ll only know after more of my memories come back.”
After saying this, he turned again and told Zhu Zhixi, “If you let Xiao’En hug me more, I can remember more.”
“Huh?”
Zhu Zhixi still wanted to ask more, but applause suddenly sounded all around them. The lights went out. The play had begun.
So he also fell silent. Pressing on Fu Rangyi’s knee, he was about to get up, but suddenly remembered something. He moved his hand away and used the chair in front of him to support himself instead.
Fu Rangyi noticed this tiny detail, but could not figure out the reason. Onstage, the female lead appeared in a white dress, the spotlight falling on her, while Fu Rangyi turned his face and leaned close to Zhu Zhixi’s ear.
“Why did you move your hand away?” he asked in a low voice.
The warm breath curled around Zhu Zhixi’s ear, making it itch. He dodged a little, also slightly dazed, and did not immediately understand what he meant.
Move his hand away?
Onstage, the terminally ill girl, utterly despairing, walked dazedly across the rooftop and encountered the male lead, who had also appeared there. At this moment, he had no wings yet. Dressed entirely in white, he did not look like an angel.
Seeing that the male lead was closer to the edge of the rooftop than she was, the girl shouted, “Be careful! Don’t get hurt!”
Zhu Zhixi was suddenly reminded and remembered. So he naturally leaned against Fu Rangyi’s shoulder and whispered to him, “Because your left leg was injured before. If I pressed on you to get up, what if it hurt?”
Fu Rangyi froze after hearing this. His brows and eyes lowered, his gaze focusing on his legs. After a few seconds, he spoke softly as if talking to himself.
“It stopped hurting long ago.”
It had been so long since anyone had asked that he had almost forgotten about it. He did not know why, but on the day of the proposal, his mind had been full of the version of himself from when he was injured.
His empty right hand subconsciously shifted a little to the right, then stopped. In the end, he still clenched it.
Just as his emotions were fluctuating, his left hand was suddenly tugged.
The little fire hydrant said, “Your palm is sweating.”
“Shut up.”
The first act was almost entirely just the male and female leads. The dialogue was very ordinary, and the pacing was strange too. The female lead inexplicably fell in love at first sight, and the angel also inexplicably forgot his mission and decided to accompany the female lead. Zhu Zhixi had once directed before, so he found it hard to immerse himself and could not help shaking his head inwardly as he watched.
Like him, the audience below also watched drowsily.
Most importantly, the male lead’s looks could not support the role of an angel at all, much less serve as strong evidence that the female lead would fall in love at first sight.
Zhu Zhixi spaced out for a while, then leaned close to Fu Rangyi’s ear and asked in a breathy voice, “Hey, you studied at S University before too. Back then, didn’t the drama club try to pull you in to act?”
Fu Rangyi tilted his head slightly. “No.”
Zhu Zhixi did not notice that he was dodging and leaned even closer, his lips almost touching Fu Rangyi’s ear. “Why? You’re so handsome.”
“I can’t act at all. Why would I go onstage? Having me say lines in front of this many people would be worse than killing me,” he said in a low voice. Then he added, “But Li Qiao played a lead role before.”
The first act happened to be about to end. Someone took the lead in clapping, and the venue immediately became noisy. Zhu Zhixi took the opportunity to ask, “But he isn’t a professional either.”
“He is professional. What medical student doesn’t learn acting while in school?” Amid the applause, Fu Rangyi imitated Li Qiao during practical training. “Sir, sir, wake up. What’s wrong? The patient is unconscious. Activate the emergency response system.”
Zhu Zhixi froze for a second, then reacted and was amused by him.
This was the first time Fu Rangyi had joked with him.
“That’s way too funny,” Zhu Zhixi said. “You actually remembered it?”
“He used me to practice his lines during nursing training. He said only I could watch him act as a doctor without laughing, so I was very suitable for playing an unconscious patient and a dead patient.”
Zhu Zhixi nearly collapsed against his shoulder laughing.
So cute.
Those three words kept spinning in his mind. Zhu Zhixi thought and thought, but still could not resist reaching out, leaning over, and grabbing Fu Rangyi’s hand.
“Extending it a little,” he whispered.
Fu Rangyi’s heart stirred, and he looked over. Unexpectedly, the little fire hydrant on his left also turned over and stared at their clasped hands.
The little fire hydrant asked, “Don’t you find it noisy when you hold his hand?”
Fu Rangyi frowned. “Noisy?”
The little fire hydrant nodded, turned back, and murmured to himself, “Tick-tock, tick-tock.”
Fu Rangyi did not understand what he meant.
Just then, the audience suddenly burst into spontaneous collective exclamations.
Zhu Zhixi looked toward the sound and realized that Liang Yi’en had come onstage.
The audience’s eyes lit up. That face instantly ignited their enthusiasm, and even the few people who had stood up and wanted to leave sat back down one after another.
“No wonder the director insisted on making him act no matter what.” Zhu Zhixi clapped extremely hard.
The little fire hydrant also broke free from Fu Rangyi’s hand and followed along, clapping hard with a papapapa.
Fu Rangyi was half-dead in the middle, his ears nearly exploding.
“What’s there to clap for?” Yu Heng, sitting beside them, rolled his eyes.
But Zhu Zhixi said, “That’s my junior. You clap too.”
Yu Heng looked bewildered. “Why should I…”
“Then spit out the red bean bread.”
Yu Heng’s face filled with question marks.
Five seconds later, the four of them, each with different expressions, clapped neatly together until Liang Yi’en onstage began speaking his lines.
What Zhu Zhixi had not expected was that this kid only had three lines back and forth—
“I love you!”
“I won’t let you leave me.”
And, “But I love you!”
Just how hastily had this role been added?
Fu Rangyi, however, noticed that every time Liang Yi’en took the female lead’s hand and began saying those empty lines, the little fire hydrant beside him could not sit still, and his hand grew hotter and hotter.
“What, are you about to catch fire?” he asked.
The little fire hydrant slowly turned his face and stared at him like a little ghost.
Then Fu Rangyi also stared back at him gloomily.
“Your hand is abnormally hot, isn’t it?” he asked.
The little fire hydrant pulled his hand back. “I’m hot.”
“That’s it?” Zhu Zhixi watched Liang Yi’en exit the stage, completely confused. “He only had one scene?”
Yu Heng snorted. “Looks like your junior is just an insignificant minor character.”
Hearing his friend being insulted, Zhu Zhixi was displeased. “You still owe me one red bean bread now.”
After saying this, he lowered his head, took out his phone, and sent Liang Yi’en a message, praising him for acting well and looking handsome, saying the audience screamed when he appeared.
Knowing he was busy, Zhu Zhixi did not expect him to reply. Unexpectedly, near the end of the second act, Liang Yi’en actually replied.
Xiao’En: Senior, is Little Yu still beside you right now?
Senior Zhixi: He is. I asked Professor Fu to hold onto him. Professor Fu is very reliable.
Xiao’En: That’s good… After I exited just now, the director suddenly pulled me aside again to add more scenes for me.
Zhu Zhixi was amused.
Wow, my scene-stealing friend.
Senior Zhixi: What scenes did they add?
Xiao’En: …Before coming over, the actor playing the angel went to the stalls and ate fried noodles, and now he has an upset stomach. He’s still squatting in the restroom. The director is afraid he won’t be able to finish, and the male lead has a big power-up scene in the final act, where he has to change into the angel costume and makeup. She’s afraid they won’t have time to connect the scenes, so she added a gunfight scene for me…
Senior Zhixi: A gunfight??? A male-female lead fairy-tale romance suddenly turned into a street shootout drama for the second male lead?
Zhu Zhixi laughed so hard he nearly could not straighten his back. How could such a development exist?
Xiao’En: Anyway, I might get shot later. They’re setting up the blood packs now. Little Yu is a little… timid, and his brain doesn’t work too well. He especially can’t bear to see me get hurt. Please keep a close eye on him. Don’t let him get triggered when the villain appears, and don’t let him run around.
Was it really that exaggerated? That timid?
Zhu Zhixi replied with an OK gesture and turned to look. The fire hydrant was still sitting obediently in his seat.
Villain, gunfight, triggered?
Zhu Zhixi suddenly developed a sense of mission. He silently repeated it several times in his heart and focused intently on the stage. Then he saw someone raise a sign.
“Act Three—”
Here it comes, here it comes.
The villain is coming too.
But in the next second, he was dumbfounded. Unlike the sparse, quiet stage from earlier, the moment Act Three began, a whole crowd came rushing onstage with a crash, chattering noisily, too many to take in.
He was lost.
It was actually an ensemble scene?
How am I supposed to know who the villain is?
He fixed his eyes on Liang Yi’en, who had been squeezed into a corner and was being frantically photographed by the first row of audience members. Liang Yi’en also narrowed his eyes and seemed to be searching the audience for him, but the seats were pitch-black, and the two of them could not make eye contact at all.
Zhu Zhixi wanted to stand up, but was afraid the back row would complain.
While hesitating, he suddenly noticed a character in the center of the stage reaching into his clothes.
“A gun? He’s going to shoot!” he blurted out subconsciously, standing up and trying to pull the little fire hydrant away.
But in the next second, that character pulled out a necklace.
Fu Rangyi dragged him back down and asked in a low voice, “What are you doing? Are you afraid of guns?”
Zhu Zhixi smiled bitterly. “I’m afraid of fake-outs like that.”
Liang Yi’en’s expression onstage was not much better. He called out the female lead’s name and squeezed from the edge toward the center. Zhu Zhixi’s gaze followed him closely.
Which one is the villain…
Can everyone who isn’t the villain automatically leave the stage…
Just then—
Bang.
Why so sudden?
Zhu Zhixi panicked even more than Liang Yi’en, the person who had been shot. His gaze darted everywhere, searching for the person holding the gun, only to suddenly react and nudge Fu Rangyi’s arm. “Quick, take Little Yu to the restroom.”
As he spoke, he also stood up, ready to coax the child. But at this moment, he discovered that sitting in the seat was only the empty shell of the fire-hydrant costume.
The person had disappeared!
“Where’s Little Yu?!”
Fu Rangyi also froze for a second.
Zhu Zhixi turned and looked to the right at Yu Heng. Yu Heng also inexplicably panicked. “No way. Are you going to blame me for another red bean bread too?”
“Oh no, oh no.” Only then did Zhu Zhixi truly feel the fire burning his eyebrows. “Hurry and look for him.”
Watching the two leave their seats, Yu Heng’s first reaction was actually to stand up as well, wanting to follow them to find that strange child. But then he thought, Wait, why have I been taking orders from my love rival this whole time?
So he sat back down, but his eyes still darted all around the theater.
Onstage, after the gunshot appeared, the ensemble actors all “screamed” and scattered in all directions. Only the gun-wielding villain, the protected female lead, and history’s most helpless added-scene victim, Liang Yi’en, remained onstage. He stood in front of the female lead, but his eyes looked toward the audience.
Below the stage, the two of them searched row by row in the dark aisles.
In his anxiety, Zhu Zhixi nearly tripped. Fortunately, Fu Rangyi was cautious and caught him around the waist in one motion, then held his hand properly.
“Be careful.”
Onstage, the villain shouted, “She doesn’t love you at all! And she won’t live long anyway. Today, I’ll kill both of you, which can be considered fulfilling your wish—”
He once again pulled out the fake prop gun and aimed it at Liang Yi’en.
A man in the front row suddenly spoke. “No, what the hell is this acting?”
The moment he finished speaking, there was a loud bang—
But it was not a simulated gunshot.
It was the sound of wings.
Zhu Zhixi stood in the aisle, raising his head, his whole body frozen in place.
Onstage, a “angel” with a body entirely snow-white and a handsome face suddenly appeared at the critical moment. He had a head of silver-white hair, long as a waterfall, reaching down to his ankles and covering his entire body. He abruptly spread enormous wings, wrapping “blood-spitting” Liang Yi’en inside them and protecting him tightly.
Onstage, white feathers drifted down like snow. There was even a strange golden light blooming and lingering around them.
“This is the male lead’s big power-up scene?” Zhu Zhixi was dumbfounded.
The female lead and villain both fell to the ground in fright.
The audience below was completely silent, yet two seconds later, thunderous applause erupted.
The angel’s wings opened slightly. Fu Rangyi was somewhat surprised. Liang Yi’en was actually the one being princess-carried.
Wasn’t he an Alpha?
“So the male lead and second male lead got together?” He had completely missed the point.
Zhu Zhixi’s gaze was completely drawn to that heaven-defying costume and makeup. “Professor Fu, can S University clubs really pull this much sponsorship? Such realistic costume and makeup? And isn’t the male lead’s styling too exaggerated? Is this really the same person as just now…”
Before he could finish, he shut his mouth.
Because from his angle, he happened to see the corner of the curtain. The director, drenched in sweat, was desperately pushing the real male lead—who had one high and one low chicken wing stuck on him—backstage. She looked exactly like a mother who had given birth to an ugly child and wished she could stuff him back in.
Zhu Zhixi’s gaze returned to the front of the stage, sweating all over.
“Oh no. That’s a real angel.”
